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Another Hook man
On a summer night in
Pennsylvania, a boy and a girl drive out to a spot in the woods.
Parked in the darkness, they heard on the radio that a man escaped
from Allentown State Hospital, several miles from the local high
school, and was terrorizing innocent people on a murder-spree. He
was described to have lost his hand and years ago it had been
replaced by a large metal hook. He had hacked off his own hand in a
fit of madness , trying to escape a pair of handcuffs years earlier.
The boy thought nothing
of it, switched off the radio and turned his attention to his
girlfriend.
Suddenly, small noises
erupted from nearby. The girl pulled away, frightened. "I'm scared.
You know, about what they said on the radio? Maybe we should go
home."
"No way, do you want
your parents to find out we didn't go to the movies? Just relax." As
they picked up where they left, they didn't hear anything for a
while until there was a loud screech on the door, obviously coming
from the girl's side of the car.
"That's it, take me
home! It's not safe out here!" Her boyfriend,
senselessly frustrated, reluctantly agreed. He complained all the
way home, insulting her for "being such a baby". Barely waiting for
the car to stop, the girl angrily opened the door and got out of the
car as they pulled up to her driveway. Slamming the car door, ready
to go inside, she froze, staring at the car. She started to scream.
The boy, growing a bit
alarmed, got out of the car and walked around to her side, where he
too, stopped where he stood and could only stare at the door handle
in frightened amazement. Found hanging from the car door, was a
bloody hook, just dangling in place. |
